This year marks 70 years since Alan Turing published his paper introducing the concept of the Turing Test in response to the question, “Can machines think?” The test’s goal was to determine if a ...

On the 16th, in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. This place, inscribed with the binary digits ‘0’ and ...

English computer scientist Alan Turing is most known for a thought experiment first devised in 1950 —- can a computer pass as a human?

More than a decade has passed since the British government issued an apology to the mathematician Alan Turing. “On behalf of . . . all those who live freely thanks to Alan’s work,” then Prime Minister ...

The invention of the computer is a tricky thing to pinpoint. There were some early attempts that were not well known and some early attempts that were deliberately secret. [Alan Turing]’s efforts with ...

Germany's top-secret World War II code was called "Enigma." The Englishman who played a key role in breaking that code was very much an enigma himself. Anthony Mason this morning helps decode the ...

A slate sculpture of Alan Turing by artist Stephen Kettle sits at the Bletchley Park National Codes Centre in Great Britain. Photo: Courtesy of Flickr user LEOL30 Alan Turing, one of the fathers of ...

In Alan Turing's 42 years of life, his discoveries and inventions saved thousands of lives and paved the way for modern computing. Despite this, it has been only ...

Notebook belonging to "The Imitation Game" code breaker sells for $1 million. — -- A notebook belonging to Alan Turing, the British code breaker who helped the allies win World War II, was sold ...

Two researchers in the Netherlands helmed the construction of a LEGO Turing machine, a quirky manifestation of the classic computer science concept first devised by Alan Turing in 1936. The device, ...